NASA Astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Board reads 'Stead Air Force Base Welcomes You'. Training instructed by Captain Robert W. Weaver. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF walk out of the building and board H-21B helicopter. Two Helicopter in flight to Desert Command post. Astronauts improvise protective clothing at desert command post.
NASA astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Food Service personnel from Stead AFB prepare meal and lay the table at Desert Command post. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF and other personnel eat food. Service Personnel prepare breakfast.
Major General Edwin Walker; Major General Sherman I Clinger, State Adjutant General for State of Arkansas and Lieutenant Colonel Ernest B Bowden, Commander of the 1st Battalion 153rd Infantry Regiment, Arkansas National Guard, stand and chat in front of the Central High School. United States Army Soldiers escort African American students up to the steps of Central High School. Other students line up along the stairs and watch.
United States Navy pilot attempts landing on the aircraft carrier Langley (CV-1) off the coast of California, United States. An Aeromarine 39B, piloted by Lieutenant Commander G.C. Chevalier comes in for landing aboard the United States aircraft carrier Langley in October, 1922. He makes a go-around on the first pass. On the second approach, he lands but the arresting gear slowly retracts, pulling his airplane backwards, and causing it to nose over. Sailors rush towards the aircraft. Another view of the same incident from a camera on the opposite side of the flight deck.
United States aircraft land aboard the aircraft carrier Langley off the coast of California, United States. A U.S. Aeromarine 39-B airplane,piloted by Boatswain A. Feher, comes in for landing aboard the United States aircraft carrier Langley off the coast off California. A signal man on the edge of the deck waves flags. Aircraft lands, but noses over and then completely flips over upside down. Flight deck crewmen along the edge of the deck rush to the stricken airplane.
United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Test pilot Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest seated at his desk at the Air Force Flight Test Center. He speaks over the phone and leaves his office. Frank Everest enters a room. United States Air Force officials seated at desk. Frank Everest converses with them and they look at a document on the desk. Two other officers join them.
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